RxDoctor Payments Data

Asad Khaja, MD

Internal Medicine · Torrance, CANPI 1679612360

Payments from drug & device makers

$484in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $18.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$165
  • Merck$98
  • CSL Behring$56
  • AbbVie$34
  • Gilead$25
  • Lilly USA, LLC$23
  • plus $83 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$484100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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22

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

How this compares

$484 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$458,220
Medicare patients
557
Services billed
2,924

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban62$22,308
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$7,937
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan17$6,491
Ethacrynic Acid11$2,068
Atorvastatin Calcium57$565
Levothyroxine Sodium32$372
Famotidine12$202
Cefdinir15$198
Gabapentin13$176
Potassium Chloride16$173
Metoprolol Succinate18$165
Pantoprazole Sodium13$118
Metoprolol Tartrate18$118
Tamsulosin Hcl13$113
Amlodipine Besylate18$96

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
NovartisEntresto$16$6,49117 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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